In what could be a boon for the aerospace industry on Florida’s Space Coast, this week, Boeing announced that it is expanding its operations at Kennedy Space Center in support of the Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle program. Boeing plans to convert an old space shuttle facility, Orbiter Processing Facility #1 (OPF-1) for the […]
January 12, 2015 – An investigation team has determined that the failure of a July 2014 Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia was linked to the installation process for the second stage igniter. The rocket was launched at 4:36 a.m. EDT, July 3, 2014, carrying a payload to […]
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the seventh Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force at 8:07 p.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex-37. This is ULA’s seventh launch in 2015 and the second successful ULA launch in just eight days. Today marks ULA’s 98th successful one-at-a-time […]
